The nurse notes that an assigned client expresses the wish to be taken care of and that the client

Question

often behaves in a helpless fashion. The client can be assessed as having needs related to the stage of
psychosexual development termed the

a. latency stage.
b. phallic stage.
c. anal stage.
d. oral stage.

Answer 1

ANS: D
Fixation at the oral stage sometimes produces dependent infantile behaviors in adults. Option A:
Latency fixations often result in difficulty identifying with others and developing social skills,
resulting in a sense of inadequacy and inferiority. Option B: Phallic fixations result in having
difficulty with authority figures and poor sexual identity. Option C: Anal fixation sometimes results
in retentiveness, rigidity, messiness, destructiveness, and cruelty.